girl's name

Aira

  • Gender Girl
  • Letters 4
  • Popularity Uncommon
  • Births on record 2,175

England and Wales

#341

2025 births

Aira is a girl's name. In 2025 it was given to 223 babies in the United States. It is used consistently but remains uncommon.

  • Peaked in 2025, when 223 babies were given the name.
  • It has been rising over the past decade.
  • Today about 1 in 14,867 babies in the United States is given this name.
  • First appears in US birth records in 1983.

Aira over time

Births per decade in the United States, 1980s to 2020s. The striped bar is the 2020s, still in progress — it covers 2020 to 2025, not a full ten years.

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Births named Aira by decade in the United States
Decade Births
1980s 24
1990s 31
2000s 81
2010s 364
2020s (to 2025) 818

How popular is Aira?

In 2025, Aira was given to 223 babies in the United States. It is used consistently but remains uncommon.

Where Aira is used

England & Wales #341 127 in 2025
Ireland #437 9 in 2025
Canada #451 66 in 2024
Scotland #743 4 in 2024
United States #1,083 223 in 2025
France as Aïra #4,101 10 in 2025

The bar shows how near the top of each country's list the name sits, on a scale where #1 fills the row and #1,000 is a sliver. The figures beside it are the real rank and the babies recorded that year.

US figures omit any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so the rarest names are absent from the source rather than absent from use. Data & sources.

How Aira is spelled

Birth registers count each spelling separately, so every one has its own ranking.

Spelling What it is Births on record
Aïra Aïra is a rare spelling of Aira, written with a diaeresis and recorded about 10 times, mostly in France. 10

Names that peaked alongside Aira

These names rose and fell in the same era, which is why they tend to sound like they belong together.

Parents who like Aira also like

Names whose popularity has risen and fallen in step with Aira over the last century — the same taste, a different name.

Sibling names for Aira

Names from the same era that won't rhyme or share an initial with Aira — the two things that make a sibling set grate.

Common questions about Aira

How popular is the name Aira?

In 2025, Aira was given to 223 babies in the United States. It is used consistently but remains uncommon.

Is Aira a girl's or a boy's name?

Aira is given almost entirely to girls in birth records.

When was Aira most popular?

Aira peaked in 2025, when 223 babies were given the name. It has been rising over the past decade.

Is Aira a good name?

That is not something records can settle, but they can tell you what you would be choosing. Aira currently ranks #341 in the United States. It has been rising over the past decade. Everything else — how it sounds with your surname, who it reminds you of — is yours.